Best Movie Soundtrack?

[Kuciwalker]

I like Hitchiker's opening song

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Prokofiev vs. Rota? Hmm, let me think about that one...

WHich Romeo and Juliet are you thinking of?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
WHich Romeo and Juliet are you thinking of?

The one from the 1970s (I think). Nino Rota did the score. The main theme is very famous.

Surely you don't mean the new one?

Or are you thinking of Prokofiev's ballet music for R&J? He never did a film score for it.

[Japher]

Glory - James Horner and the Harlem Boys Choir

[molly bloom]

The Man With The Golden Arm

L'Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud

Wattstax

The Grifters

Get Carter (original)

North By Northwest

The Wicker Man

Jazz On A Summer's Day

Across 110th Street

Alfred the Great

Walk on the Wild Side

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


The one from the 1970s (I think). Nino Rota did the score. The main theme is very famous.

Surely you don't mean the new one?

Or are you thinking of Prokofiev's ballet music for R&J? He never did a film score for it.

There was a movie of the ballet. I think it was filmed in the 1960s.

[SpencerH]

I've seen one with a british ballet company (troupe?) with Dame somebody or other (not edna) as Julliet. She looked about 60 or so (playing Julliet - yeah right) but she was still a wonderful dancer.

EDIT: it was 1966 with Dame Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev

[SpencerH]

I wish I could write without parenthesis.

[molly bloom]

Clockwork Orange

Battle of Algiers

In The Mood For Love

Psycho

West Side Story

Shaft

Cleopatra Jones

Trouble In Mind

Fanny and Alexander

[frostycreep]

The best soundtrack by far is young guns 2! Bon jovi rocks! Its the album which had blaze of glory as its main single, its a classic!

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
There was a movie of the ballet. I think it was filmed in the 1960s.

Don't know about that, but I wouldn't really count that, as the music wasn't written expressly for the movie.

That would be like saying the Best Movie Sountrack was the 1970s Carmen film with Domingo. But it's not really movie music, it's an opera they've filmed. I prefer to make a distinction to give credit to those who write for movies.

[molly bloom]

The Moderns

Passion Fish

The Last Seduction

The Angelic Conversation

Bullitt

In The Heat of the Night

Equinox

Rosemary's Baby


The Conversation

Performance

The Italian Job

Nine Hours to Rama

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Don't know about that, but I wouldn't really count that, as the music wasn't written expressly for the movie.

That would be like saying the Best Movie Sountrack was the 1970s Carmen film with Domingo. But it's not really movie music, it's an opera they've filmed. I prefer to make a distinction to give credit to those who write for movies.

Did Prokofiev write the score explicitly for the movie Alexander Nevsky?

[Boris Godunov]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
Did Prokofiev write the score explicitly for the movie Alexander Nevsky?

Yes. He's considered the father of film score composers.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov


Yes. He's considered the father of film score composers.

Prokofiev was an early 20th century version of John Williams?

Oh father, how will I ever live with the shame? (Visualize Sylvester the Cat's son putting grocery bag over his head.)